1Cademy - 2003 SARS Outbreak in Beijing

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2003 SARS Outbreak in Beijing

Schools in Beijing were closed approximately 6 weeks after the beginning of the outbreak, and remained closed for over 2 months.
Pang and colleagues concluded that school closures made very little difference in preventing the spread of SARS in Beijing, due to the fact that there were low attack rates in schools before closure and low prevalence of SARS in children.
Cowling and colleagues estimated the effective R for each day of the Beijing SARS outbreak, noting that school closures occurred after the R had dropped below 1 and school closures did not significantly contribute to the control of the outbreak.
Class cancellation strategies were used in upper high school and colleges where students would stay on campus but did not attend classes.
There were no recorded transmission of SARS in schools during the outbreak in mainland China.

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